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60 of the Men of the Cà Pellegrini, Schiavone has painted afigure of San Jacopo with those of two Pi]grims; and in the Church of the Carmine he has executed a picture of the Assumption, with a large number of Angels and Saints. This is on the ceiling of the Choir; and in the same Church, at the Chapel of the Presentation that is to say, he has depicted Our Saviour Christ, as an Infant presented by the Virgin Mother in the Temple.

The last mentioned painting comprises many portraits from the life, but the best figure in it is that of a Woman clothed in a yellow vestment, who is suckling a child. This is executed with a sort of facility and in a certain manner not unfrequently used in Yenice, the group being merely dashed in or slightly sketched, without being finished at all. In the year 1550 this artist was commissioned by Giorgio Tasari to paint a large picture in oil, the subject being the Battle which had been fought a short time previously between Charles V. and Barbarossa. That work, which is among the best ever executed by Andrea Schiavone, and is indeed a truly beautiful painting, is now in Florence in possession of the heirs of the Illustrious Ottaviano de’ Medici, to whom it w'as sent as a gift by Vasari.